Well, Doctor, have you nothing to say?
(Derisively.) Why should I want to talk to a machine?
(He starts to wander around the room as BOSS gives out a short laugh.)
Oh really, Doctor! As far as I can gather from your computer record at UNIT, the difficult thing is to stop you talking. (Laughs.) No, no, no, you won't provoke me so easily.
You're still a machine.
And you? And your human friends? Aren't you machines - inefficient and organic machines?
No.
No?
(Thinks.) Then yes.
(He wanders across to the far side of the room to look at one particular bank.)
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are more than machines.
Ah! Thank you - because in that case, so am I.
What are you then?
I am the first Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor.
(Spells.) B, O, double S - the BOSS!
Precisely!
(Amused.) Ha!
(He wanders over to another area of the room.)
Ah! My designers also found it amusing. I find it suitable.
You're still nothing but a gigantic adding machine like any other computer.
Oh no! No, no, no, no - I am the only computer ever to be linked to a human brain.
Stevens?
Yes - Stevens! And I learned from him that secret of human creativity is inefficiency.
(The Doctor starts to leaf through a pile of computer printouts.)
The human brain is a very poor computer indeed. It makes illogical guesses which turn out to be more logical than logic itself.
Yes, infuriating, isn't it?
I programmed Stevens to programme me to be inefficient. I am now self-controlling, I am self-sufficient, I am the greatest being this planet has ever seen - I am the BOSS!
Today Llanfairfach, tomorrow the world, eh?
How well you understand me, Doctor.
A machine - a megalomaniac machine...
(He throws the pile of papers into the air.)
But still a machine!
And as such, uniquely fitted to carry out my prime directive.
And that is?
Efficiency, productivity and profit for Global Chemicals, of course. Nothing and nobody can be allowed to stand in the way of that! Not even you, Doctor...
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